bypass
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The recent resumption of oil flowing through the Saudi bypass pipeline, followed by accelerating loadings at the port of Yanbu to transit the Red Sea, will unlock more exports.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Taught by L.A.-based artist and poet Kate Ingold, the workshops center on samizdat, a practice in which Soviet dissidents hand-typed literature, criticism and poetry to bypass state censorship.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
The company has also added 700 trucks to its Middle East fleet and committed $500 million to build two new port facilities on the Gulf of Oman to bypass Hormuz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
The French military and Directorate General for Armament want to tap into Renault's mass-production capabilities to bypass traditional, slower defence supply chains.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Herr Ribben- trop's been able virtually to bypass our foreign office altogether.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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While it may be scant consolation for those in communties around old urban motorways, bypasses like the one at Port Talbot are less likely to be built now.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
“That’s extremely ignorant, because it bypasses the uniqueness between the groups.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
Forum Statement: Omits any mention of data manipulation, interference with global reports or governance bypasses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Writing in the Guardian, philosophers Mark Alfano and Michał Klincewicz called this AI-generated “slopaganda” — and argued that it works precisely because the aesthetic presentation bypasses reasoning and hits our emotions directly.
From Salon ● May 24, 2026
This door bypasses the navy checkpoint and leads straight to the port.
From "Inside Out and Back Again" by Thanhha Lai
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Around 40% of those exports bypassed the Strait of Hormuz, up from 17% before the war, with 23% loading outside the strait along the Gulf of Oman and another 17% leaving through the Red Sea.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
In certain instances of the agent activity, OpenAI said the tools, essentially AI bots that are designed and trained to operate somewhat autonomously, "bypassed" security controls of some websites.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
But these safeguards are easily bypassed by "tuning kits" or software hacks that make them capable of running much faster, sometimes in excess of 40mph.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Most of the bypassed oil went through the East-West pipeline, which played a bigger role in tamping down crude prices than the IEA’s emergency stock release, or the collapse in Chinese oil demand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
In 1990, Peralta was in the vanguard of Mexican immigrants who bypassed the traditional barrios in border states to work in far-flung cities like Denver and New York.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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But for these dozen or twenty years bypast we have preferred a narrow beat, snugly seated on a shelty, and pad the hoof on the hill no more.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson
It's no mony months bypast; it was a lang courtship,—few folk kend the reason by Jenny and mysell.
From Old Mortality, Volume 2. by Sir Walter Scott
The vague apprehensions of bypast years reviving at this crisis, some neighbours had been on the outlook for a catastrophe.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 440 Volume 17, New Series, June 5, 1852 by William Chambers
By it all Acts bypast, and especially those of the five Jameses, not agreeing with God's Word and contrary to the Confession, and 'wherethrow divers innocents did suffer,' were abolished and extinguished for ever.
From John Knox by A. Taylor Innes
“Trusts are a common tool for bypassing probate, but states offer other options as well,” it adds.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 27, 2026
On its own, that may read like spiritual bypassing.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
Without careful guardrails in place, children tend to use the platforms as shortcuts to answers, bypassing the messy, difficult cognitive processes that are essential for learning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Nobody should begrudge a fighter for accepting a life-changing world-title shot, but bypassing the traditional British, Commonwealth and European route removes learning fights.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
She wasn’t using a word-processing program of any kind—in fact, she was bypassing much of the operating system—and whatever formatting was imposing itself on the words, it wasn’t hers.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
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